Word: dupee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Darling Is the Dupe...
...jury, after 53 minutes, dutifully found Adulteress Rattenbury innocent and Dupe Stoner guilty last week of the murder of "Rats," she being promptly set free and he sentenced to hang. "I am glad she has been spared!" cried Murderer Stoner...
...Hawks (Columbia). As a realistic picture of modern commercial aviation, Air Hawks would be hard to take. Fortunately it is nothing more serious than a horror story hoisted aloft and sustained there by familiar mechanisms: a diabolical invention, a lovely cabaret singer used as the dupe of a crew of villains, trap doors, a comedy reporter, murder, young love and a mysterious gang chief photographed from behind, who turns out to be the man you least suspect. Before long the roguish tendencies of the executives of Transcontinental Airways have been stimulated to such a pitch by the refusal of Ralph...
...evidence was ever advanced. But they seem to have decided that at least one scapegoat must be retained. Van der Lubbe is not now of much use to the Brownshirts, for even they admit that he could have had no connection with the German Communist Party except as a dupe, and the Dutchman in his startling but sane moments confessed to having fired the Reichstag quite unaided by any of the other defendants, and since the main objective of the trial is to prove the guilt of the Reds and the white-as-driven-snow innocence of the Nazis...
Their country left alone as the only world power still on gold, French bankers privately denounced the President's action as a "political fraud, too clever to be successful." Cried the Journal des Debats: "We would be playing the dupe to continue distributing gold. . . ." But sitting on top of a $3,170,000,000 reserve Marianne la France vowed she would not go off gold...